Pros
Made some lifelong friends but There are no good reasons to work here.
Cons
Management see's employees as disposable because they have new nurses coming out of 2 nursing schools to replace the experienced staff. Very few people stay more than 5 years because there is better pay at other hospitals less than 50 miles away. The culture that management creates is that of a ship of rats that will eat each other in order to think they are getting ahead. But the reality is that they don't care about anyone. I saw them intentionally target employees bc they had been there too long and it cost less to hire new staff than to pay the experienced ones. They preach patient care but ask yourself this do you want a brand new fresh from school nurse taking care of your family member or one that has been working as a nurse for 20 years. In a hospital it is the experience of the nursing staff that ensures you or your family member make it home, and not the doctor. The starting pay for a nurse has not changed in 10 years because there is no real hospital close enough to compete for market share. Staff that would come in and work overtime every time the phone rings to support their families are not appreciated at all for the extra effort in fact it is the opposite. They look for any reason to impose disciplinary "points" so that you are unable to transfer to another part of the hospital. They also use these "points" to build a paper trail of "problems" so that when they fire you they can say they had a reason and not pay for unemployment. And even those don't matter if they want you gone because you won't drink the kool-aid and be a "company man". One Nurse I worked with had never been disciplined in 5 years but when she disagreed with the nursing managers policy of mandatory overtime because they had gone through the annual thinning of the staff cycle. She was fired for NOT REPORTING SOMETHING SHE DID NOT SEE HAPPEN, because she knew the story was a flat out lie told by one person to help get rid of another. This sorry excuse for a hospital is more like a highschool where dumb kids that suck up to the teacher get promoted into management because they are willing to lie and say what management wants to hear when the patient satisfaction scores come back low. The lack of accountability for individual performance is unreal, and the only way to get ahead is to be a backstabbing liar. They have recently frozen peoples retirement plans and will not allow any further contributions to them nor the transfer out of your money to another qualified plan. Apparently they have struck a deal with another retirement provider. How is that ok????? The only way I worked there for 20 years was by staying on night shift and transferring from one department to another at a minimum of every 5 years. But even then once they wanted me to leave their was no choice I just had to start looking for a new employer before they found a reason to fire me and then take my pension. If you work here you really need to be able to know when someone you don't see or talk to has decided you have been there too long.. They will normally find someone that has no dignity to lie and help them get rid of you. STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORRID PLACE!!!!!